Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul.

I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.

Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.